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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






2. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






3. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






4. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






5. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






6. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






7. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






8. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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9. Individual Educational Plan






10. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






11. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






12. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






13. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






14. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






15. Feeling through fingertips






16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






17. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






18. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






19. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






20. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






21. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






22. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






23. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






24. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






25. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






26. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






27. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






28. Closed syllable






29. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






30. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






31. State Board of Eduation






32. Multisensory Structured Language






33. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






34. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






35. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






36. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






37. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






38. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






39. Final stable syllable

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40. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






41. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






42. Multisensory Structured Language Education






43. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






44. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






45. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






46. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






47. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






48. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






49. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






50. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo